«L’umanesimo della parola» Studi di italianistica in memoria di Attilio Bettinzoli

By remembering Attilio Bettinzoli with this collection of essays, the intent of friends and colleagues is to recognize the legacy of knowledge and affectionate memories that he left in those who attended him in his intellectual excursions. His entire life was dedicated to literature and teaching, with a fine critical spirit and with joyful curiosity, both on the academic side as a refined reader – in the footsteps of Vittore Branca and exploring paths ranging from Boccaccio, Poliziano, Ficino, Pico and Iacopo Sannazaro up to the poets of the twentieth century, with a predilection for Rebora – and in poetic writing, along an existential line interpreted with dense and suggestive poetic collections that accompany the path of investigation into twentieth-century poetry in friendly and esteemed voices such as those of Eugenio Montale, Emilio Cecchi, Giovanni Boine, Camillo Sbarbaro, Cristina Campo, Giorgio Caproni and Giorgio Vigolo, often assigned to students as a topic in numerous theses, to attest to research constantly linked to teaching. These are also the thematic and conceptual lines on which the essays offered by colleagues and students move, in a small sign of friendship and gratitude for the path shared over the years.